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The TRTL Comes Out Of Its Shell
For the past three years Innotech has been a proud sponsor of Team Canada’s entry into the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, a building competition that challenges teams from around the world to design and build the energy efficient housing of the future.
Team Canada’s entry in 2011, the TRTL (Technological Residence Traditional Living), was very well received, cracking the top 10 in the competition and winning a prized Emerald Award in the Education category. After the competition the home was donated back to its birthplace, the University of Calgary, where it will be utilized as a student hub for sustainability research.
On March 21st the stakeholders of the TRTL gathered to rededicate the project as the Spo’pi Solar House. Representatives from the school as well as from the Treaty 7 First Nations people were on hand to validate the transfer from the students to the school. Today, May 2nd, the facility will celebrate its grand opening, and the entire team at Innotech wishes the University and its students the best of luck with their new space, and we can’t wait to see what energy efficient innovations they come up with.